EBC Yellow brake pads

[Dean]

OK, I have about 300 track miles on them from Sear's Point, Thunderhill, and a couple thousand on the street.

They are still about a mm away from the minimum thickness. They have taken a beating and held up well.

Rotor wear has been minimal, < 0.2mm Front, <.05mm Rear.

They are pretty good on the street, and would probably be great for auto cross. The cold bite is very strong. Almost to strong for the street, especially in low friction times. Probably not quite the hot bite as the R4s but extremly consistant at the track with no fade with good fluid. But then again, I am comparing The R4s from the WRX and Stoptechs so I wasn't as fast into the corners and brakes were better. Not sure if Matt or Mike has tried them both.

By far the yellows are a great deal for really good pads for the STI. Bang for your buck... A+++++

See Thread for updated best deal prices

Oh, and my El Cheapo $300 for the full Front and Rear Rotor set are holding up well. That wear is on those disks.

[MattR]

Agreed, best bang for the buck Pad for track use. You can make them last forever and abuse the hell out of them. I tend to be a bit easy on my equipment, so I have gotten a good deal of use out of mine. I plan to put them back in the car for at least two more track weekends next year.

However, I will not be using these for autocross next season. I DID have them in the car last year, and they are not what I'm looking for for Auto-X. Dean, I actually don't like the initial bite for autocross, and they are miserable when cold IMO. Carrie and I would drag the brakes from grid to the starting line in our early runs last year, or else we couldn't stop without putting a foot through the floor.

Definately recommmended for an affordable safe track pad though.

For Auto-x, I'm running Porterfield R4-$'s

[Joeyy]

Originally Posted by MattR

Agreed, best bang for the buck Pad for track use. You can make them last forever and abuse the hell out of them. I tend to be a bit easy on my equipment, so I have gotten a good deal of use out of mine. I plan to put them back in the car for at least two more track weekends next year.

However, I will not be using these for autocross next season. I DID have them in the car last year, and they are not what I'm looking for for Auto-X. Dean, I actually don't like the initial bite for autocross, and they are miserable when cold IMO. Carrie and I would drag the brakes from grid to the starting line in our early runs last year, or else we couldn't stop without putting a foot through the floor.

Definately recommmended for an affordable safe track pad though.

For Auto-x, I'm running Porterfield R4-$'s

Do you think the Porterfield R4-S's will be good on the wagon?

[MikeK]

I agree with Matt, these are awesome bang for the buck track pads, but the cold bite sucks. I definately don't recommend these for autoX (or the street during winter). I have a set that has 1 track day on them, and they have at least 3/4 of the material left. The only thing I didn't like about the yellows is that they don't bite anywhere near as hard as other pads I have tried ... porterfield R4 (I haven't tried R4-S), ferrodo 3000.

Mike Warfield once told me that the PFC-97s were the best track pad he has used, and at the time they were only available for stoptech calipers, not brembos, so I went with the R4s, but I noticed last week that they are available for the brembos now, so I might try a set of them once my yellows are done.

[MattR]

Originally Posted by Joeyy

Do you think the Porterfield R4-S's will be good on the wagon?

I haven't auto-xd on them yet, so I don't know for sure. They should be great. But I know for a fact that Axis Ult work great with stock WRX brakes.

[Dean]

I am resurrecting this thread because I continue to like these pads and the prices have actually come down. Auto Parts Warehouse currently has the best prices with free shipping on orders over $50, and if you do a search on Google for 'auto parts warehouse coupon' there are $10 codes for over $200 orders as well as others for different $ values.

I just paid $203 shipped total for fronts and rears for the STI.

These are the only pad I ran all last year, street, track, and autocross even in the wet. Absolutely amazing flexibility, performance, consistency and longevity.

If you are not tracking your car, they are not the best choice (try the Greens), but no other pad I have used works remotely as well across all these uses.

I actually like them at autocross once I got used to them. they were very predictable from run to run.

If you don't want to change pads between events, this is the pad IMHO.

[A1337STI]

I've had both greens and yellows. green rock for winter, although i never bothered to put mine back in. i rode the yellows since last summer. my rears need to be replaced but my fronts are holding up good.
although i also dragged the brakes up to the starting line at autox to pre heat them a lil.

[cody]

The rears wore out faster than the fronts? Or are you on your 2nd set of fronts?

[Dean]

Originally Posted by cody

The rears wore out faster than the fronts? Or are you on your 2nd set of fronts?

I am at 1.5 or 2:1 on front to rear wear I think.

[A1337STI]

Yes i wore my rears out first, my fronts have like 50% left i think and the rears like 10% .
But i do a lot of LFB in rally cross .

[A1337STI]

hey dean 105 is good for rears and all, but summit sells them for 97$ :O
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...528+4294839613

and their fronts are 127.95 so slightly better for fronts also . It may not be a better deal shipped, but we can pick up @ summit

[Dean]

Originally Posted by A1337STI

hey dean 105 is good for rears and all, but summit sells them for 97$ :O
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...528+4294839613

and their fronts are 127.95 so slightly better for fronts also . It may not be a better deal shipped, but we can pick up @ summit

Um, $203 from Post #6 < $97+$127.95+TAX by at least $30 or 15%.

Summit is a great local source when they are in stock here.

Perhaps you should look at the dates on posts. I bumped this thread after using the pads for over a year.

[A1337STI]

hmmm.

dduuuuuuuuh, yarr. doh!

I clicked on the link from work and i thought i saw that it was 2$ more then sumit for the rear set. but i just clicked now and yarr this is definitely way cheaper. Guess i can't click correctly anymore

lol to make matters worse i drove into summit today and yes they are completely out of stock on any STI pad you'de want to buy, and few you shouldn't even consider. so that added like 50 minutes to my drive home today Doh!

[A1337STI]

I just ordered a set of fronts and backs for 185$ no tax, free shipping. that deal is the Bomb!

Awesome find Dean !!

you rock!!

[A1337STI]

Wow, so a whole month later and i still don't have my order. they canceled the first one with out ever contacting me, now they sent me out 1/2 the order, no rear brakes, and its my rears i really needed.

again no contact.

Uber lame internet service . worst ever. zero stars

Great price, but don't order from them if you want your brake pads with in a month , or two months, ... or ever.. ARG Fucking sons of bitches!!!


always feels good to vent

[JonnydaJibba]

I'm sure they have a telephone no?

[sybir]

somethingsomethingyougetwhatyoupayforsomethingsome thing.

Sucks, don't get me wrong, but what do you expect when the price is almost too good to be true?
When you find something cheaper than anything else on the internet...........there's a reason.

The product is the same, the wholesale price is the same............the price cut comes from volume and not having to pay people to follow up and provide great service. You're paying for shitty service, expecting it is kind of implied when you click the "buy" button.

[cody]

Good service and low price are not mututally exclusive though.

I think we've all "rolled the dice" by ordering something off eBay, Edge Racing, or some other budget website and had a great experience doing so. I just spent over $1000 on Newegg and Geeks.com and received fantastic prices and service from both vendors.

But yes, it is still rolling the dice, especially when nobody you know has experience with a vendor.

[sybir]

Yep. Ebay is always a gamble. I've had good luck (it's a joke with my friends that I buy everything on there), and I'm not saying there aren't inexpensive vendors that have good service, but they're the exception, not the rule. I've been in the performance game too long and seen how too many mail-order/internet operations work to trust the vast majority of 'em. Everyone drop-ships, floats order money, and oversells, and makes up for it by paying some poor car guy minimum wage to handle too much work because he answered an ad on a car forum and thinks he's going to get his foot into the industry on his way to fame and fortune as a shop owner.

[Kevin M]

Originally Posted by sybir

Everyone drop-ships, floats order money, and oversells, and makes up for it by paying some poor car guy minimum wage to handle too much work because he answered an ad on a car forum and thinks he's going to get his foot into the industry on his way to fame and fortune as a shop owner.

Ah, memories.

[Forgotten]

Originally Posted by A1337STI

Wow, so a whole month later and i still don't have my order. they canceled the first one with out ever contacting me, now they sent me out 1/2 the order, no rear brakes, and its my rears i really needed.

again no contact.

Uber lame internet service . worst ever. zero stars

Great price, but don't order from them if you want your brake pads with in a month , or two months, ... or ever.. ARG Fucking sons of bitches!!!


always feels good to vent

Well I ordered mine on sunday afternoon and both the front and the rear were delivered to my house today in different boxes. Give them a call? I would imagine something happened with your order.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by Forgotten

Well I ordered mine on sunday afternoon and both the front and the rear were delivered to my house today in different boxes. Give them a call? I would imagine something happened with your order.

Sounds like they're drop-shipping. Which also means if you call them, they won't know what happened to the order until they call the place that was supposed to ship the order.

Like sybir said, that's the difference between the place that has their own warehouse and shipping employees and the cheaper place that puts their name on the line by letting other companies do the work for them.

[Dean]

Best deal update...

www.streetsideauto.com

Free Shipping

10% Discount coupon code "PowerBlock" for prices in (parenthesis)

STI Fronts $119.80 ($107.82) Rears $91.94 ($82.75)